Word: tars
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...attractive young businesspeople, a man and a women, walking through the lobby of an office building. The woman realizes she has forgotten her cell phone and asks the man if she can borrow his. He hands her his phone, which has a University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill Tar Heels logo on it. The woman promptly throws the phone out the window, and explains, Duke. Class of 94. The man nods, understanding completely...
...Friday, manufacturing continued to sink into its personal tar pit, with the Commerce Department reporting that durable goods (expensive, long-lasting stuff like cars, air conditioners and computers) fell in the U.S. in July, again, this time by 0.6 percent. And Thursday?s weekly jobless claims hit a nine-week peak while the number of people collecting checks hit 3.18 million, the highest since September...
...available in Laos, they can't resist the temptation to try out what has become almost legendary in the West: pure opium. The drug is grown mainly by the hill tribes who came south from Yunnan, China, in the last century and brought a taste for the black, inebriating tar with them. Tribes like the Aka and Hmong cultivate the crop in the otherwise arid highland climate, and bring it down to sell to Vietnamese dealers in the main towns. Ton pays about $20 for a wax-paper sheet of opium, 6 mm thick and as wide as his hand...
...best sculptors, of course, have always valued craft: good making, consummate skill. Quite often in America, those responsibilities were delegated to fabricators, as in most Minimalism. But the special intensity of Puryear's work comes from doing everything himself, mainly in wood (though tar, mud and wire also figure in his repertoire). Through the action of the shaping hand on wood, he brings forth a poetry of material substance that's unique in today's America. Puryear has always been troubled by the art/craft division in American culture. "At bottom it's a class issue really," he says. "'Art' means...
...Kristen Boike, and Carrie Larkworthy are the only remaining players to have played and practiced with now-legend Feaster, a guard/forward for the WNBA's Charlotte Sting. The fourth senior, co-captain and North Carolina transfer Melissa Johnson, played against Feaster in the NCAA tournament when Johnson was a Tar Heel...